Photoshop

I have an update to yesterday’s post. Because the demo photo I used in that post didn’t do a very good job of describing how the Adaptive Wide Angle filter works, I thought I’d follow up with this one. I have the perfect photo for today’s demonstration so I think everything should be clear from […]

There are many types of images that need to be corrected because of distortion. Photos that were taken with wide angle lenses, fisheye lenses and those images that were merged together to create panoramic photos. In each of these cases, either the lens itself caused the distortion or the merging together did. No matter the […]

A while ago, I wrote a few posts that dealt with the creation of panoramic images in both Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw. Creating these types of images has become incredibly easy though the years and Adobe makes the process painless. If you’ve got decent shots, there are only a few simple steps to take. […]

Just a few moments ago, I was teaching someone how to manage the workspace in Adobe Photoshop. A number of times, I said, “There are about a millions ways to do the same things in this program.” It’s true. You can follow a number of different paths in Photoshop and arrive at the same destination. […]

When it comes to sharpening in Adobe Photoshop, what actually happens? Well, to put it simply, Photoshop finds edges that exist within an image and it cleans them up. Edges can be defined as any area with a marked change between color or luminance. Depending on how distinct that change is will depend on whether […]

Have you ever wondered how you can easily invert part of your text when it overlaps other text? I’ve wondered that for a long time and today, I’d like to share the trick for how to accomplish that with you. When it comes to text effects, the Difference blending mode can be a lot of […]

Styles are one of the first places you, as a new editor, will go when you launch Adobe Photoshop. If you’re working with text at all, you’re most likely going to want to add some flavor to that text. After all, boring text is, well, boring. There are a million different combinations of effects that […]

Did you know that you can make really good looking trees right inside of Adobe Photoshop? I’m not talking about lousy one dimensional trees either. I’m talking about trees that actually look real; ones that you can change and customize in about a million different ways. That’s right, this is one of those virtually unknown […]

I sometimes wonder if I’m the only one on earth who gets excited over the most mundane details of how Adobe Photoshop works. I think it has something to do with my imagination. I imagine people sitting behind their computers trying to find the solutions to all types of quandaries and honestly, I find that […]

There are many methods for selecting something in Adobe Photoshop, but only a few ways to modify a selection once it’s been made. While the more traditional tools are somewhat strict in their usage (but becoming less strict everyday), there are a few, not as frequently used, tools that really should be looked at more […]